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Australasian Digital Theses

Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) is another example of open access services for dissertations and theses. According to their website: “ ... the program has two major components, digitisation of theses as part of the deposit process and the digitisation of a selected number of frequently requested existing theses ... each university is responsible for maintaining an archival copy of the theses of their own institution ... the participants will use the same database configuration, standards and metadata system to ensure compatibility.”

Today I had a workshop at the main library of our university about Current Awareness Services (CAS) and Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) in academic libraries. In this workshop I tried to introduce a number of simple and practical steps that we can employ in our libraries to develop these services and provide our users with more relevant and pertinent information resources. I believe librarians should not necessarily wait for the advanced and perfect infrastructure facilities to develop these services. In contrary, we can put these services into operation through a number of creative and simple steps. As a result we will be able to make a positive difference in the level and usefulness of what we do.

Dr Yazdan Mansourian is a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He received his PhD in Information Science from The University of Sheffield (2003 to 2006). The title of his thesis was "Information Visibility on the Web and Conceptions of Success and Failure in Web Searching". Yazdan has a BSc degree in Agricultural Engineering (1991-1995) from Guilan University and an MA degree in LIS from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (1998-2001). During January 2007 to June 2017 he was faculty member at Kharazmi University (Tehran, Iran). From 2011 to 2016 he was Director of the Central Library at Kharazmi University and was also Head of the LIS Department during that time.